If any element of beauty and meaning to life, that is, without doubt, tenderness. Tenderness is the most serene, beautiful and strong love. It is the respect, recognition and affection expressed in the touch, the subtle detail in the unexpected gift in the complicity or delivered and sincere hug. With tenderness, emotional relationships create the roots of the bond, respect, consideration and true love. No tenderness is difficult relationship flourish. But it is also thanks to the affection that our children also receive emotional support essential for their future development as people. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who joined thousands of terminally ill patients on their way to death and testified to his experience in a series of books, has more memories that accompany us in the last moments of our life are to do with moments of triumph or success, but experience in which what happens is a profound encounter with a loved one, an intimate moment with meaning, words of gratitude, touch, looks a goodbye a reunion, a thank you, forgiveness, a love you. It's those moments that are seemingly engraved in memory by the light that reveals the tenderness of human excellence through the care and affection. Oscar Wilde said
in art as in love is tenderness giving force. Mahatma Gandhi pointed in the same direction when he said that a coward is incapable of showing love. And so, paradoxically, the tenderness is not soft, but strong, firm and bold, because it shows without barriers, without fear. Moreover, not only tenderness can be read as an act of courage, but also the will to maintain and strengthen the bond of a relationship. Tenderness ago strong love and light the spark of joy in adversity. With it, every relationship becomes deeper and longer because its expression is only a symptom of the desire that the other is fine.
Tenderness implies, therefore, confidence and assertiveness . Without it, no delivery. And most ironic is that their expression is not ostentatious, and that manifests itself in small details: attentive listening, the kind gesture, demonstration of interest in the other, without tenderness contrapartidas.La also expresses the quality of a relationship. Sex with tenderness is an expression of love, without tenderness, a relationship based on sexuality is bound to break. Because although there may be sensory intensity physical exchange, without tenderness there is a relationship that lies in the pursuit of self pleasure and makes the other an object of satisfaction and nothing else. The French essayist Joseph Joubert said that tenderness is the rest of passion. Indeed, the passion of being in love is fleeting and eventually gives way to a more relaxed where you install the tenderness. Without it, the relationship is doomed to failure because their absence creates boredom, routine, apathy, and selfishness away.
